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http://www.deadline.com/2011/08/disney-acq...e-finest-hours/

Disney Acquires Coast Guard Rescue Saga 'The Finest Hours'
By MIKE FLEMING | Friday August 12, 2011 @ 1:06pm EDT
Tags: Brad Caleb Kane, Casey Sherman, David Arata, Dorothy Aufiero, Eric Johnson, Jim Whitaker, Michael J. Tougias, Paul Tamasy, Peter Hedges, The Finest Hours



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EXCLUSIVE: While the summer dealmaking has tapered off in the dog days of August, a big one went down yesterday. In a deal worth high-six against seven-figures, Walt Disney Pictures acquired a package to make a movie out of the bestselling book The Finest Hours, with Oscar-nominated The Fighter scribes Paul Tamasy and Eric Johnson to write the story of a daring Coast Guard rescue off Cape Cod in 1952. The project was set up through Jim Whitaker's Entertainment and he will produce with Dorothy Aufiero, who worked with the writers as the original producer of The Fighter.

Published in 2009 by Scribner, the Casey Sherman and Michael J. Tougias-authored book tells the story of a Coast Guard rescue undertaken after two oil tankers were torn in half by treacherous waves during a deadly nor'easter blizzard. There were four rescue efforts, including two undertaken by a handful of men on two old, wooden, motorized 36-foot lifeboats. The men understood they had no business fighting frozen gale winds and seas but went anyway in an attempt to rescue the 84 men who were floating on halves of the cracked and sinking oil tankers.

Whitaker, the former Imagine Entertainment exec who directed the 9/11 documentary Rebirth that Showtime airs on Sept. 11, set up the project under his first-look producing deal at Disney. There, he's in post-production on the Peter Hedges-directed The Odd Life of Timothy Green and is developing the action thriller Unlimited with Fringe writer Brad Caleb Kane and Hexum with Children of Men's David Arata. Whitaker described the book as "a riveting story of courage, and the fact that it's true makes it all the more compelling," he said. "Its characters and themes epitomize the stories we gravitate towards and are eager to produce at Disney."

The deal was brokered by Verve in tandem with Gotham Group's Ellen Goldsmith Vein and Michael Prevett.

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La Disney produrrà The Finest Hours

La Disney ha acquisito i diritti di The Finest Hours, il bestseller scritto da Casey Sherman e Michael J. Tougias, che racconta dell'avventuroso - quanto vero - salvataggio realizzato dalla guardia costiera per riportare a terra 84 membri dell'equipaggio di due petroliere, spezzate in due da onde mastodontiche.

Il film sarà sceneggiato da Paul Tamasy ed Eric Johnson, già dietro al successo di The Fighter. Jim Whitaker e Dorothy Alfiero produrranno la pellicola.

Ambientato nel 1952 a Cape Code, il film mostrerà come la guardia costiera effettuò l'operazione di salvataggio usando soltanto due scialuppe di legno.

Fonte: Badtaste

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Interessante!!

[veu]

Una sorta di Baywatch però realmente esistito insomma... non male come idea... vedremo come la svilupperanno...

Messaggio modificato da veu il 13/8/2011, 21:55

[Claudio]

mi piace ! spero vadano avanti

[Zio Paperone]

Fa parte di tutte quelle storie vere che la Disney porta sul grande schermo da molto tempo!!!!!Quanto ci scomettete che verrà prodotto anche un film sul pattinatore di colore che ha vinto l'oro a Torino 2006?

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si torna a parlare del film..

http://collider.com/finest-hours-tim-van-patten/196970/

BOARDWALK EMPIRE Director Tim Van Patten to Helm Disney’s Coast Guard Drama THE FINEST HOURS
by Adam Chitwood Posted: September 20th, 2012 at 12:40 pm



Director Tim Van Patten is looking to take the helm of Disney’s The Finest Hours. The film is based on the bestselling book of the same name by Casey Sherman and Michael Tougias that recounts the 1952 Coast Guard rescue mission to recover 84 men trapped in a deadly nor’easter blizzard. Two WWII oil tankers were ripped in half, leaving four halves of ship floating aimlessly through the storm carrying the disaster’s only survivors. The brave Coast Guard men set out on a suicide rescue mission, some on old wooden motorized lifeboats, in order to recover the lost seamen. The Fighter scribes Paul Tamasy and Eric Johnson were set to write the script last summer, but Variety’s report doesn’t specify whether Van Patten will perform a rewrite.

Van Patten is currently an executive producer and principal director on HBO’s Boardwalk Empire and has previously helmed episodes of Game of Thrones, The Pacific, and The Wire. He was one of the main directors on The Sopranos throughout the series run, helming the seminal season four episode “Whoever Did This,” so he has a fantastic resume that speaks to his potential as a film director. Hit the jump to read the synopsis for The Finest Hours.

Here’s a synopsis for the novel The Finest Hours:

In a 1952 nor’easter, the distress of two ships off Cape Cod initiated a dramatic Coast Guard operation recounted here by coauthors Tougias and Sherman. Both vessels were World War II surplus, cheaply built, unwisely kept in service, and broken in two by the storm. All four halves floated, for the moment, and the authors’ narrative accordingly tracks four separate search-and-rescue efforts that form the complete story. The most prominent, in the press at the time and in official honors conferred afterward, concerned one motorized lifeboat, a puny 36 feet long and manned by four men, dispatched to do battle with the maelstrom’s towering waves. This is the seascape of The Perfect Storm, and the authors do justice to the peril in a tight account of the action. Plotting the course of CG36500, the utilitarian name of the lifeboat captained by Bernie Webber (interviewed for this book), Tougias and Sherman reach their peak of tension in the sink-or-swim moments when mariners abandoned ship and chanced their lives on their rescuers’ skill and bravery. [Amazon]

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Robert Schwentke In Talks To Helm ‘The Finest Hours’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday May 29, 2013 @ 8:31am PDT
Tags: Disney, Robert Schwentke, The Finest Hours

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Disney is in negotiations with Robert Schwentke to direct The Finest Hours. Jim Whitaker and Dorothy Aufiero are producing. Paul Tamasy and Eric Johnson adapted the novel written by Casey Sherman and Michael J Tougias. Logline: In 1952 the Coast Guard attempts a dramatic rescue after two oil tankers collide off the coast of Cape Cod.

http://www.deadline.com/2013/05/robert-sch...r-disney-movie/

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Pare che il film si faccia davvero
http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=117279

Chris Pine Targets True Coast Guard Drama The Finest Hours
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
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Although RED and R.I.P.D. helmer Robert Schwentke was said to be eyeing the project last year, The Hollywood Reporter today brings word that Walt Disney Pictures is looking at setting Craig Gillespie (the man behind their upcoming true sports story Million Dollar Arm) to direct the period coast guard rescue story The Finest Hours. What's more, they're looking at setting Star Trek's Chris Pine to headline.

The film, adapted by Paul Tamasy and Eric Johnson, is based on the book by Casey Sherman and Michael J. Touglas, officially described as follows:

In the winter of 1952, New England was battered by the most brutal nor'easter in years. As the weather wreaked havoc on land, the freezing Atlantic became a wind-whipped zone of peril, setting the stage for one of the most heroic rescue stories ever lived.

In the early hours of Monday, February 18, while the storm raged, two oil tankers, the Pendleton and the Fort Mercer, found themselves in the same horrifying predicament. Built with "dirty steel," and not prepared to withstand such ferocious seas, both tankers split in two, leaving the dozens of men on board utterly at the Atlantic's mercy. The Finest Hours is the gripping, true story of the valiant attempt to rescue the souls huddling inside the broken halves of the two ships.

The spellbinding tale is overflowing with breathtaking scenes, as boats capsize, bows and sterns crash into one another, and men hurl themselves into the raging sea in their terrifying battle for survival.

Not all of the eighty-four men caught at sea in the midst of that brutal storm survived, but considering the odds, it's a miracle—and a testament to their bravery—that any came home to tell their tales at all.

Jim Whitaker is attached to produce.

(Photo Credit: WENN.com)


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Il casting continua... a questo punto credo uscirà nel 2016
http://variety.com/2014/film/news/josh-ste...ine-1201289927/

Dark Knight Rises’ Actor Josh Stewart Joins Chris Pine in ‘Finest Hours’

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Josh Stewart, who played the villain Barsad in “The Dark Knight Rises,” is set to join Chris Pine and Casey Affleck in Disney’s “The Finest Hours.”

Craig Gillespie will direct the pic, which is based on a true story and takes place in 1952, following the Coast Guard as it attempts a dramatic rescue after two oil tankers collide off the coast of Cape Cod.

Stewart will play a sailor aboard the oil tanker.

Jim Whitaker and Dorothy Aufiero are producing.

Stewart was most recently seen in Alcon’s “Transcendence.” He recently wrapped production on the Amazon series “Hysteria.”

He is repped by ICM Partners and attorney David Krintzman.

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Il film è in piena produzione:
PS: Strano comunque ... è un genere che la Disney sembrava aver abbandonato. Ottima cosa!

http://collider.com/the-finest-hours-chris...-casey-affleck/

THE FINEST HOURS Starring Chris Pine, Casey Affleck and Holliday Grainger Nearing Production
by Perri Nemiroff Posted 28 days ago
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We first found out that Chris Pine was in talks for Disney’s The Finest Hours back in April, but now the project has its core cast and is set to begin production this month in Quincy and Chatham, Massachusetts. The screenplay comes from Academy Award nominees Paul Tamsay, Eric Johnson and Scott Silver and is based on the Casey Sherman and Michael J. Tougias book, The Finest Hours: The True Story of the U.S. Coast Guard’s Most Daring Sea Rescue, which recalls what happened when two oil tankers were pummeled by a vicious nor’easter in the winter of 1952 and the Coast Guard was dispatched to rescue them. Hit the jump for more.
the-finest-hours-book-coverPine, Casey Affleck and Holliday Grainger are all on board to star for director Craig Gillespie, but the press release makes no mention of who they’re playing. Deadline is also reporting that Kyle Gallner is in the mix as well. Apparently he’ll be taking the role of the Coast Guard rescue boat’s engineman who feels like he’s got a lot to prove during this mission.
The Finest Hour will hit theaters in the fall of 2015. Here’s the official synopsis for the film:
In February of 1952, one of the worst storms to ever hit the East Coast struck New England, damaging an oil tanker off the coast of Cape Cod and literally ripping it in half. On a small lifeboat faced with frigid temperatures and 70-foot high waves, four members of the Coast Guard set out to rescue the more than 30 stranded sailors trapped aboard the rapidly-sinking vessel. “The Finest Hours” is the story of their heroic mission, which is still considered the greatest small boat rescue in Coast Guard history.

Read more at http://collider.com/the-finest-hours-chris...60xzU0SrbML1.99

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Aggiunta al cast:

http://variety.com/2014/film/news/ben-fost...306080/?_r=true

Ben Foster Joins Chris Pine in Disney’s ‘Finest Hours’ (EXCLUSIVE)

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Ben Foster has joined the cast of Disney’s “The Finest Hours” starring Chris Pine.

The pic also Casey Affleck and Holliday Grainger with Craig Gillespie directing.

The film is based on a true story revolving around a rescue attempt by the Coast Guard in 1952 after pair of oil tankers are destroyed during a blizzard.

Paul Tamasy and Eric Johnson adapted the script from Casey Sherman and Michael J. Tougias’s 2010 book.

Production is currently under way in Massachusetts.

The UTA-repped Foster was last seen in Universal’s “Lone Survivor” and can be seen next in the untitled Lance Armstrong pic where he portrays the cyclist, followed by Legendary’s adaptation of “Warcraft.”

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Il film ha una data di uscita:
http://deadline.com/2014/10/the-finest-hou...016-1201266549/

Disney has set the release date for its disaster-at-sea feature The Finest Hours for April 15, 2016. The 3-D drama from filmmaker Craig Gillespie chronicles the massive rescue mission that’s launched when a pair of oil tankers split in two off the coast of Cape Cod in 1952. The feature, based on the best-selling book by Casey Sherman and Michael J. Tougias, stars Chris Pine, Casey Affleck and Eric Bana. Paul Tamasy and Eric Johnson wrote the initial draft The Finest Hours, and Scott Silver wrote the latest greenlit version.

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L'uscita del film è stata anticipata al 9 ottobre 2015 (Usa), prendendo il posto del Libro della Giungla.

Fonte: boxofficemojo

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L'uscita del film è stata anticipata al 9 ottobre 2015 (Usa), prendendo il posto del Libro della Giungla.

Fonte: boxofficemojo

Bene.

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Bene.

insomma... due thriller uno dietro l'altro?
La settimana dopo esce quello di Spielberg. Che vogliano spostarlo?

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Poster:

http://disneynext.fr/Futurs%20films%20d...inest_hours.htm

Secondo voi uscirà anche qui??

[-kekkomon-]

Esce anche in Italia

[-kekkomon-]

Ehm il castello?

[Beast]

Esce anche in Italia

Dici che questa volta non va dritto su sky?

[-kekkomon-]

Dici che questa volta non va dritto su sky?

Non credo, l'hanno pubblicizzato sulla pagina Italiana Disney.

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Nuovo Trailer:

http://lagazzettadisney.it/2015/11/12/the-...r-e-poster-usa/

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Il film uscirà il 29 gennaio 2016 in USA

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Da badtaste:
Apre al quarto posto L’Ultima Tempesta – The Finest Hours, con 10.3 milioni di dollari: ne è costato oltre 70.